Sperm and egg tracking with RFID

A Bellevue company says it is using radio frequency identification technology to track sperm and egg samples during the entire course of artificial insemination procedures.

In a press release, Overlake Reproductive Health’s Dr. Kevin Johnson said the company’s IVF Witness product “acts as a digital fingerprint, to strictly monitor our lab procedures” in order to guard against mix-ups with sperm or egg samples.

Here’s a 1999 BBC story on in vitro fertilization and how critics have argued that some eggs could be mistakenly transferred to the wrong woman.